assumption
Example Sentences
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That is despite higher copper-price assumptions, illustrating how expected capital and operating costs have risen since then, say the analysts.
That assumption does not fully apply to artificial intelligence systems now entering pathology labs.
From Science Daily
Their accounts forced newsrooms to revisit assumptions about whose voices should lead a story.
From Salon
“If this asset and/or others are larger and meaningfully impair our cash return assumptions, then there may be more fuel for the bear case.”
I thought not and the courts agreed, disposing of the government’s arguments as “speculative, based on unproven assumptions, or unsupported.”
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